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With no wiring, easy to install, environmentally friendly, saves money in energy cost and your time. Solar outdoor lights are a great way to do outdoor home improvements. Most people would like to have a great home outdoor environment but believe that it is too time consuming and very costly. These days solar outdoor lighting is getting more and more affordable than just a few years ago. With using the suns energy to power your lighting needs it makes it all that more appealing and most cost effective.

A well lit home is beautiful looking. Gives safety to your visitors and is a way to deter thieves of trying to break into your living space. There are many varieties of solar outdoor lights to choose from such as path or walkway lights, garden decoration or spot lights, even lamp post or rock lights that display your street house numbers. With so many styles to choose from you should not have any problems finding something to your liking or that would match your landscaping taste.

Solar lights are very easy to set up with very minimal assembly. For most of the path and walkway lights it is pretty much a 3 step process.

Step 1: Would be to turn “On” the On/Off switch to the “On” position which in normally located on the bottom of the solar panel housing.

Step 2: Twist and secure the light diffuser and the lens cap to the solar panel housing.

Step 3: Attach the mounting pole to the ground stake/spike then firmly push the assembled mounting pole into the ground. Attach the light to the mounting pole.

It is just that simple. The decoration figurine lights are as easy as: Take out of the box, turn “On” the On/Off switch & place in a sunny location. These are very basic steps that most of your solar outdoor lights will follow.

Now before you go running out and just buying any type of solar outdoor lights there are a couple of things that should be considered. First a bit of your time should be spent on choosing the right location. Solar outdoor lights really need to be in direct sunlight for many hours of the day to get the best charge possible on the rechargeable batteries. Solar lights will charge in indirect sunlight but will start putting stress on the batteries thus will reduce its life a lot sooner. This means your lights will start turning off sooner faster and you will be changing batteries more often then you should. The rechargeable batteries with the best charge possible should last on the average about 18 months. So make sure you spent some time checking out were the most sun for the day is in yard compared to where you would like to place your lights. This will help you get the most use out of the batteries without having to change them so often.

Second, once you have chosen just that perfect spot for your solar outdoor lights, consider what type of lights or lighting you are looking for. Ask yourself what do you want to accomplish with these lights? Would it be just path or landscape lighting, garden decoration or figurine lighting, spot lighting of different articles or plants that you have in your yard? Do you need to light up a set of stairs, patio lights or lights on your fences? Do you want color or just white lights? Or maybe you need a little bit of everything for just the right atmosphere. There are all different types of solar outdoor lighting to choose from for different types of applications. Take some time and shop to see what there is to offer for the types of lighting that will be the most beneficial and satisfying to you. If you plan in the beginning before you go and buy you will save money and time when purchasing your solar outdoor lights.

Once you have it done it will be time for relaxing and enjoying your family & friends while they enjoy the beautiful “Go Green” environment surroundings that you have created so quickly. Enjoy and have fun.

Home improvement ideas are seldom being discussed in this modern world of gadgets. Cellular phones, laptop computers and game consoles are the in thing nowadays. Everybody is caught up with much modern stuff that kids and some adults are enjoying. I myself is guilty with all these technology hang over. But as a gardening enthusiast and a pro go-green individual, I would like to promote some eco-friendly interior improvement ideas.

As what I have observed, there are so many gardening ideas that are being introduced online. There are dozens of wonderful home decorating ideas that are available online but I have chosen three ideas that really caught my attention. There are window flower boxes, hanging baskets and glass terrariums to complete the list of some newly suggested home and gardening improvement ideas that we could add up to our theme at home. These three may not be the best but I can assure you that the absolute satisfaction will be yours if you have one of the three ideas that I mentioned above.

Window flower boxes are the most popular among the three ideas. It is normally placed on the window ledges of the house. We can dazzle the guests with bountiful flowering plants placed on the flower box. Selections of which will depend on the concept that you have for your home. You might want your flower box match the flowering plants that you have selected. It will be best to create a design for your flower box to make it stylish.

Next on the list is the hanging basket. Hanging baskets are so far the simplest form of outdoor garden decoration. But we may try to give some personal touch to make it more appealing. With our creativity, we can design a unique yet wonderful hanging basket we can use to accentuate the house, inside and out. Let it hang on the pillars of our patio or add it to some of our backyard ornaments to add color and set the mood of the area.

Glass terrariums are rarely used interior decoration for residential homes because of its unique form. Sometimes people mistakenly think that it is a regular sized aquarium but it is actually a home embellishment that has the option to be hung or posted on the wall. There are different types of glass terrariums, namely, bubble terrariums, hanging terrariums and globe terrariums. Every terrarium has a hole that could accommodate our hands to fill it up with plants or preserved animals. It would be a great experience designing your terrariums. Another good thing about terrariums is the flexibility of the ornament for every occasion. Somehow we can make occasional changes to participate on the festivities.

All these home decorations are the changes that we can add to our home to make it classy and stylish.